Hello all in a project with an MSP430 I have to print to an IRDA-Printer and to send/receive Konfiguration data to/from a PDA At least I...

Hello all in a project with an MSP430 I have to print to an IRDA-Printer and to send/receive Konfiguration data to/from a PDA At least I decided to use the IRDA stack from Embednet. Does anybody use it and could tell me about its reliability and/or problems? What's about the support of embednet, any experiences? TIA Holger

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I am trying to port the JTAG library released with TI App. Note 149 for use with my parallel port. I am able to reset the device and perform...

I am trying to port the JTAG library released with TI App. Note 149 for use with my parallel port. I am able to reset the device and perform basic initialization over JTAG. However, I am having problems with writing to on-chip RAM. It turns out that whenever I write to a location, the location last accessed (read or write) gets corrupted. Here's an output showing what I mean: -------------...

Greetings, Is there a way I can perform a hardware test on a S1D13705 Epson LCD Controller. I am currently interfacing the controller with an...

Greetings, Is there a way I can perform a hardware test on a S1D13705 Epson LCD Controller. I am currently interfacing the controller with an MSP430, using various ports to access the Controller, my current test code isn't working, but there is no way of finding out if the chip, or my code is at fault. Any help would be appreciated. Elfred

I have in mind to store a lot of data acquired by an autonomous measurement board build around a MSP430, on a removable memory stick. If...

I have in mind to store a lot of data acquired by an autonomous measurement board build around a MSP430, on a removable memory stick. If possible in a "disk" format, readable on some laptop. Did somebody realize it? Do you know about an application note about that ? Thanks for any information and help p.

Hi all, I've been looking into how to interface huge and cheap consumer flash memory cards with hobby projects powered by an AVR, PIC, or...

Hi all, I've been looking into how to interface huge and cheap consumer flash memory cards with hobby projects powered by an AVR, PIC, or MSP430. A lot of the advice seems to be to use MMC or SD memory cards in SPI I/O mode. That seems like a good approach, but (1) sockets for these cards might be hard for a new hobbyist like me to solder, and (2) I already have a bunch of CompactF...

Hi, Does anyone here have working experience with the MSP430 chips? I am designing a FSK modem using MSP430F148. I try to do it by following...

Hi, Does anyone here have working experience with the MSP430 chips? I am designing a FSK modem using MSP430F148. I try to do it by following the application note SLAA037 "FSK modulation and demodulation with the MSP430 microcontroller" I have two questions with this application note: 1. What software tool use for the sample code in appendix. 2. How the WDF filter in FSK Receiver Routi...

To help narrow my search, could anyone who has used TI's MSP430 please offer a brief opinion as to the advantages, if any, of it over...

To help narrow my search, could anyone who has used TI's MSP430 please offer a brief opinion as to the advantages, if any, of it over other alternatives for DSP? Jim

Hi All, What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating point package(FPP)? Is is able to be used on any of their uC? I need the...

Hi All, What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating point package(FPP)? Is is able to be used on any of their uC? I need the uC to take the square root of a number and it seems that I'll have to use the FPP to do it. Is that true? What is the FPP used for? Thanks David

David R. McCoy wrote: > Hi All, > > What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating...

David R. McCoy wrote: > Hi All, > > What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating point package(FPP)? http://www-s.ti.com/sc/techzip/slar041.zip, described in http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slaa024/slaa024.pdf > I need the uC to take the square root of a number and it seems that I'll > have to use the FPP to do it. Is that true? It is one way to do it. > What is the FP

I know that I've seen a TI document about this before, but a 15 minute google search left me with nothing. I am double-checking a schematic...

I know that I've seen a TI document about this before, but a 15 minute google search left me with nothing. I am double-checking a schematic that uses an MSP430F149, and I want to ensure that I have all the pins correctly terminated for (1) correct operations and (2) access to the JTAG port for in-circuit programming and debugging. Here's what I've got: AVcc -- 3.3V DVcc -- 3.3V DV...

Hello all, What do you think about the MPLAB ICD2 and the "USB Pic" in general ?! MSP430xxxx lowers, would you switch to PIC? Is there some USB...

Hello all, What do you think about the MPLAB ICD2 and the "USB Pic" in general ?! MSP430xxxx lowers, would you switch to PIC? Is there some USB based developpement board for MSP430 I ignore ?!?

Hi all, Spin time... I've tested out enough of my sub electronics to be able to start optimizing. I'm contemplating the MSP430F149 or F135 as...

Hi all, Spin time... I've tested out enough of my sub electronics to be able to start optimizing. I'm contemplating the MSP430F149 or F135 as a candidate to replace a few 8-bit micros [that are currently way under-utilized anyway]. This is a dual-purpose project; saving power and also learning the MSP430 as I will be using it extensively in the coming years at work. However, at home I w...

Greetings. I have been using MSP430-gdb on linux succesfully with the MSP430F149 chip. However when I use the MSP430F169 chip the device is not...

Greetings. I have been using MSP430-gdb on linux succesfully with the MSP430F149 chip. However when I use the MSP430F169 chip the device is not recognised and the "erase" command does not work. Other commands work OK eg "load" and "continue" I would appreciate if somebody could suggest a solution or a workaround. Can I set the device type directly? perhaps there is an extension to the...

Hi! I am trying to get the TX/RX echo example program to work on an Olimex Easyweb II MSP430 starter kit. I am able to receive character on...

Hi! I am trying to get the TX/RX echo example program to work on an Olimex Easyweb II MSP430 starter kit. I am able to receive character on the host PC using HyperTerminal to monitor the serial connection (TX on embedded microcontroller). However, it does not receive any characters sent from the terminal program, and I am just about out of options on how to debug this problem. Anyone that ...

Hello, I am trying to debug code running on an MSP430 over a parallel port with my own version of gdbproxy. For most part it work fine. However...

Hello, I am trying to debug code running on an MSP430 over a parallel port with my own version of gdbproxy. For most part it work fine. However when I set multiple breakpoints, then on hitting the first breakpoint gdb instructions the proxy to remove ALL breakpoints. I have two questions: * Should (msp430-) gdb really try to remove a breakpoint once it is hit? * Even if so why does it tr...

Hi! I have to program a MSP430F11(0/1)1 (1/2KB Flash, 128B RAM) to do 2 tasks: - RX/TX bus connection - measure a capacitance with...

Hi! I have to program a MSP430F11(0/1)1 (1/2KB Flash, 128B RAM) to do 2 tasks: - RX/TX bus connection - measure a capacitance with timer_A The measurement has to run every certain time. But this has not the highest priority. It is better for me to loose one measurement cycle and therefore get incoming bus data. At this point I remark, that I can't adjust interrupt priorities in the ...

Hello to all, I have to program a TI MSP430 in Forth. My problem is that I'm not able write in the SR and in the IE1 register. I can write in...

Hello to all, I have to program a TI MSP430 in Forth. My problem is that I'm not able write in the SR and in the IE1 register. I can write in other controlregisters like ADC12CTL1... etc. The following is teh code I'm using for the "DINT" command: code /DisInt

try twice... Hello to all, I have to programm a TI MSP430 in Forth. My problem is, that I'm not able to write in the status register or in...

try twice... Hello to all, I have to programm a TI MSP430 in Forth. My problem is, that I'm not able to write in the status register or in IE1. I can write in other control registers like the ADC12CTL1 e.g. but i can't handle the interrupts. I'm using the following forth code to call the command "DINT": code /DisableInt DINT RET end-code It also dosn't work when I'm using c...

Texas Instruments has announced a new family in its MSP430 ultra-low power 16-bit RISC microcontroller product line that provides twice the...

Texas Instruments has announced a new family in its MSP430 ultra-low power 16-bit RISC microcontroller product line that provides twice the processing performance (16 RISC MIPS) and half the stand-by power consumption compared to earlier devices. http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp4302xx.asp - Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com